Fixing fast fashion: France will pay you to repair your clothes • FRANCE 24 English

3 months ago by Alpinefolk to c/solarpunk

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Incentivising repairing clothes via policy, monetary incentives and changing cultural norms all help to move to more sustainable fashion.

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HerbGrower 7 points 3 months ago

How repairable are clothes normally? Like a button or ripped drawstring sure I would fix that. But usually my clothes are thrown out when the material has started wearing thin enough that holes appear easily and surely by that point any patch applied is going to be very short lived before more appear?

Then again when I hear stats like the average item of clothing is worn 7 times, maybe I am not really the target of this. There are only minimal repairs I do to clothing but it does get worn a lot more then that.

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Alpinefolk 2 points 3 months ago

That’s a good question. I’m the same where I wear my clothes until they’re falling apart. Then again I do repair quality clothes and use old clothes to patch newer ones. Cheap poor quality clothes are a big problem. My wife sews alterations for a dance company and even new costumes from fast fashion companies are terrible to adjust and fix.

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